EUROPEAN NEWS.
[Age Specials.] (UNITED J*BBSS ASSOCIATION ) London, Nov. 27. A trading company, consisting of thirty adventurers, has been organised, and they proposed sailing for New Guinea under the command of Kennedy, one of the members of the Executive Council of Tasmania. On tho matter being brought under the notice of Earl Derby, His Lordship refused to sanction the expedition. The course which the company propose to adopt m the face of this refusal has not yet transpired. Sir Dillon Bell is compiling a statement setting- forth the views of the colonies relative to the deportation of French criminals to the islands of the Pacific. This work has been undertaken at the special request of Lord Derby. . ; December 4. The objections raised by the Australasian colonies to the Bill now before the French Legislature, for tbe deportation of French criminals to the islands of the South Pacific, having again been brought prominently under the notice of the British Government, Earl Granville notified that he will repeat the protest recently made by the English Government against the provisions of the Bill.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 11, 11 December 1883, Page 3
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180EUROPEAN NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 11, 11 December 1883, Page 3
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